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- 2761: CHEMICAL REACTIONS
- ... Laurent Lavoisier, in France, discovered an important detail in the understanding of the chemical reaction combustion of oxygen. He said that combustion was a chemical reaction involving oxygen and another combustible substance, such as wood. John Dalton, in the early Nineteenth Century, discovered the atom. It gave way to the idea that a chemical reaction was actually the rearrangement of groups of atoms called molecules. Dalton also said that the appearance ...
- 2762: The Vietname War in "America's Australia: Australia's America" and "Into the Dark House"
- ... 1975 the United States, Australia, Korea and New Zealand represented the Free West democracies, engaged in a conflict against a communist revolution in Vietnam. A conflict which according to JFK was of utmost importance, for Kennedy Vietnam represented the " cornerstone of the free world in southeast Asia." Joseph. M. Siracusa ( two books), McMahon and D.J.Dennis explore different areas of the Vietnam War in the following works, "Into the Dark ...
- 2763: George Berkeley: His View of God
- ... this knowledge is processed by certain innate schema in the mind. Those that belonged to the empiricist school of thought developed quite separate and distinct ideas concerning the nature of the substratum of sensible objects. John Locke and David Hume upheld the belief that sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic framework for the materialist position. The main figure who believed that material substance did not exist is George ...
- 2764: Essay on the Intrinsic Flaws Inherent in Christianity
- ... then therefore be analysed. It is accepted by Christians that god created everything. If this is true, then this same god created evil. It is written in the Bible that god is all-knowing (1 John 3:20). God is, in effect, omniscient. If god is omniscient and creates, he then knows all possible outcomes of all possible creations of all possible universes. If he created our universe, he chose what ...
- 2765: The Book of Mark: An Essay for Humanities Courses That Treat The Bible As A Historical Document
- ... in which Mark expected the parousia: "Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place." You can easily see why the other evangelists, Matthew, Luke & John, re-wrote Mark's apocalyptic writing to be more of a "Sacred Time," and less definite. Mark used a common tactic of quoting scripture (especially Dan, Isa, Mic & some Psalms) for his apocalyptic writing. We ...
- 2766: Criticism of Keats' Melancholy
- Criticism of Keats' Melancholy After reading the title of John Keatss Ode on Melancholy, I was immediately intrigued. I thought it odd to base a poem on the feeling of melancholy. The poem touched me and after I completed reading it, I felt depressed ...
- 2767: Henry David Thoreau
- ... spot and wonder the world and find their place in it. For many, Walden served as a touchstone. Thoreau said that he went to the pond to write a book in memory of his brother, John, who had died three years earlier. Thoreau also stated, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn ...
- 2768: Henry Ford
- ... the Edisons were down. The two families enjoyed their time away from it all in the tropical serenity of Fort Myers, Florida. Camping expeditions into the Everglades, with Harvey Firestone and his family, plus naturalist John Burroughs, became a special treat. Henry Ford died April 7, 1947. Editorial tributes were favorable to Henry Ford. "He was praised as a patriot, philanthropist, philosopher, reformer, economist, and teacher and depicted as a symbol ...
- 2769: Henry VIII
- ... Church , he was going to make some changes. He had all the bibles translated into English. He then had all the people take an oath for this law. But Sir Thomas More and, then Cardinal, John Fisher wouldn't accept the religious supremacy of the English monarch, so they were then executed. These changes gradually led to the formation of the Church of England. In 1536, Henry accused his second wife ...
- 2770: Irving Penn
- ... value," he recalls, "and its form could be changed by the number and placement of boxes used under it. It was a good foil for peoples faces." Among the great subjects for this series was John Dewey and Alfred Hitchcock. Two series of portraits are especially memorable. One was made during Christmas in Cuzco, Peru, the other in studios in London, Paris, and New York. The first, in 1948 high in ...
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